COUNTRY LIFE POLL

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4. "Out of the Blue" (Ferry, Phil Manzanera) – 4:46 11
1. "The Thrill of It All" – 6:24 9
10. "Prairie Rose" (Ferry, Manzanera) – 5:12 7
3. "All I Want Is You" – 2:53 7
5. "If It Takes All Night" – 3:12 2
7. "Triptych" – 3:09 2
9. "A Really Good Time" – 3:45 2
6. "Bitter-Sweet" (Ferry, Mackay) – 4:50 2
8. "Casanova" – 3:27 1
2. "Three and Nine" (Ferry, Andy Mackay) – 4:04 0


groovy groovy jazzy funky pounce bounce dance (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 11:18 (seventeen years ago)

Hmmmmm, much thought needed

Vitbe Is Good Bread (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 11:19 (seventeen years ago)

Good excuse to listen to this again!

Vitbe Is Good Bread (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 11:20 (seventeen years ago)

Let me be the first of many to say Prairie Rose.

kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 14:23 (seventeen years ago)

That's what I voted.

Bernard's Butler (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 14:36 (seventeen years ago)

best side 2 of any Roxy album? voted "Triptych"

Paul, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 19:11 (seventeen years ago)

Possibly the most difficult poll of all. Have to think about this, but it's a close toss up between "All I Want Is You" and "Prairie Rose"

Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 19:34 (seventeen years ago)

PRAIRIE ROOOSE!! hey hey.......

Joe, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 19:43 (seventeen years ago)

The Thrill of it All

bidfurd, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:18 (seventeen years ago)

6. "Bitter-Sweet" (Ferry, Mackay) – 4:50

i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:19 (seventeen years ago)

Triptych is the outlier but it is also one of my favorite songs of theirs. A damn fine album.

i'm shy (Abbott), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

triptych sounds vaguely like the bee gees "every christian lion hearted man will show you"

velko, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:01 (seventeen years ago)

'A Really Good Time' but for entirely sentimental reasons.

It is not enough to love mankind – you must be able to stand (Michael White), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:08 (seventeen years ago)

"All I Want is You" is Roxy honing its single skills to a fine point -- not one wasted moment. It sums up in three awesome minutes why they matter.

The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:11 (seventeen years ago)

After a bunch of listens to this album over the last few days, I'm going with "If It Takes All Night". I know it's cheesy to admit it but that song does a good job of expressing my basic attitude to life. Plus I dig its Dylanesque.

Euler, Saturday, 21 February 2009 21:06 (seventeen years ago)

I dig its Dylanesque.

That's another Ferry Album!

The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 21 February 2009 21:09 (seventeen years ago)

;)

Euler, Saturday, 21 February 2009 21:16 (seventeen years ago)

"All I Want is You" is Roxy honing its single skills to a fine point -- not one wasted moment. It sums up in three awesome minutes why they matter.

Totally OTM. Everyone is just killing it here... My fave Ferry vocal too - the combination pleading/sneering when he says "cut price souvenirs"

Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 21 February 2009 21:37 (seventeen years ago)

Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 21 February 2009 21:38 (seventeen years ago)

Thrill of It All

iago g., Saturday, 21 February 2009 21:43 (seventeen years ago)

I can has:
- Wetton
- pristine formalwear
- some of Manzanera's sweetest stuff
- lucite violin

butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Saturday, 21 February 2009 21:50 (seventeen years ago)

Probably "Prairie Rose," but this version of "Casanova" is Ferry at his lascivious best.

Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 21 February 2009 22:32 (seventeen years ago)

Great song, but I've preferred the slow version he's performed since airing it on Let's Stick Together.

The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 February 2009 03:08 (seventeen years ago)

Slow version's great, but no clavinet == no justice.

Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 22 February 2009 04:16 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

I'm very torn between "The Thrill of it All," "Out of The Blue" and "All I Want Is You"

but "Out of the Blue" always hits s certain spot for me so I might go with that

autogoblin (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 21:32 (seventeen years ago)

thrill.

xhuxk, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 22:18 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Thursday, 5 March 2009 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

did not see that coming

Jesus Lulz (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 5 March 2009 00:03 (seventeen years ago)

Aw no votes for "Three and Nine"? It's a sleeper. "If It Takes All Night" is the overrated one.

The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 March 2009 00:13 (seventeen years ago)

A Really Good Time got hosed. And Out Of The Blue is nowhere near the best song on this record.

Prairie Rose 4EVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kornrulez6969, Thursday, 5 March 2009 01:18 (seventeen years ago)

"If It Takes All Night" is overrated---by who? I didn't realize it was rated highly by anyone really.

Euler, Thursday, 5 March 2009 02:25 (seventeen years ago)

did not see that coming

i see what you did there

butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Thursday, 5 March 2009 03:43 (seventeen years ago)

"Out of the Blue" is one of those songs whose lyrics can have a real deep significance for a huge number of people, I bet a lot of people love it so much because of personal reasons (at least I do).

autogoblin (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Thursday, 5 March 2009 03:54 (seventeen years ago)

it's a very honest and optimistic song for them. and after all, "throwaway lines often ring true"

autogoblin (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Thursday, 5 March 2009 03:55 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

playing this for the first time ever (right now).

starting off amazingly.

World Series champion San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Thursday, 10 March 2011 05:02 (fourteen years ago)

By the time you hit "All I Want Is You" you'll be wondering why the hell you haven't been listening to it for years.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 March 2011 05:09 (fourteen years ago)

might live blog this?

i absolutely the chaos that the horns brings to Roxy music.

then the sexuality starts to set in on the second song, brilliant. with that album cover you knew it was going to be there.

World Series champion San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Thursday, 10 March 2011 05:09 (fourteen years ago)

lol, that song is starting right now

World Series champion San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Thursday, 10 March 2011 05:10 (fourteen years ago)

xpost

World Series champion San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Thursday, 10 March 2011 05:11 (fourteen years ago)

listening to this album on CD cause i bought it years ago from BMG/Columbia House years ago. just took off the shrink wrap.

World Series champion San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Thursday, 10 March 2011 05:13 (fourteen years ago)

i see why "Out of the Blue" won this poll, it's a cut above.

World Series champion San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Thursday, 10 March 2011 05:19 (fourteen years ago)

now they are sounding like Elvis, lol.

World Series champion San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Thursday, 10 March 2011 05:20 (fourteen years ago)

now side two is starting, here comes back the sexuality.

"Bitter-Sweet" really only got two votes? this is the kind of stuff i really, really love. true goth at heart i guess.

World Series champion San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Thursday, 10 March 2011 05:27 (fourteen years ago)

i absolutely love the chaos that the horns brings to Roxy music.

how it should have read...sometimes, when i drink, things come out in words differently than they are suppose to be.

World Series champion San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Thursday, 10 March 2011 05:37 (fourteen years ago)

album is really top heavy, though i like the mood of the second side. "A Really Good Time" gets the mood back and then crash the party with those horns again and end it.

World Series champion San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Thursday, 10 March 2011 05:41 (fourteen years ago)

i can see this being the fourth or fifth best Roxy Music album. very satisfyingly for scratching that itch and happy to add it to my collection.

World Series champion San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Thursday, 10 March 2011 05:45 (fourteen years ago)

five months pass...

holy shit the thrill of it all is a monster imo

if you hipster on your fixie tonight, dont forget, wear black. amen. (Hunt3r), Monday, 22 August 2011 18:39 (fourteen years ago)

It is, but I have a soft spot for "A Really Good Time". That song just places me in Ferry's 70s world.

Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 22 August 2011 19:10 (fourteen years ago)

such a solid album. doesn't quite touch the peaks of the first three records at any point, but it's a more consistently engaging front-to-back record i'd say. when a song as arresting as 'three and nine' isn't receiving any acknowledgement, you know you're dealing with something of a very rare calibre indeed.

charlie h, Monday, 22 August 2011 19:33 (fourteen years ago)

it's weird, i'm plenty old enough to know better, but i never listened to early roxy until very recently-- and i found it's a mammoth hole in my understanding of music. i listen to so much of this stuff, and i don't hear a 70s world. it sounds more like a an early 80's world in many ways and it is disorienting (but it doesn't sound like early 80s roxy/ferry at all, with which i was contemporarily familiar). i was a kid in the 70s, and i really wish my 70s sounded more like early roxy.

if you hipster on your fixie tonight, dont forget, wear black. amen. (Hunt3r), Monday, 22 August 2011 19:40 (fourteen years ago)

Totally know what you mean - I didn't get into early Roxy until I was in my 30s, when it all just clicked for me. And of course it should sound like early 80s - the bands of that era were deeply influenced by them. And they ran with their ideas!

Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 22 August 2011 23:35 (fourteen years ago)

such a solid album. doesn't quite touch the peaks of the first three records at any point,

Disagree, especially when "All I Want is You" is playing.

a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 August 2011 23:45 (fourteen years ago)

sw00ds and I discuss Country Life (and Another Time and Place) here:

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/audiovisual/soto-woods-roxy-ferry-006.mp3

a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 August 2011 23:47 (fourteen years ago)

sometimes my second fave roxy (which is saying ALOT), never less than fourth

balls, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:10 (fourteen years ago)

gonna listen to this when I get home, thanks ILM!

sleeve, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:24 (fourteen years ago)

One way I think about how to rate the first five Roxy albums is to think about "The Bob" vs. "The Bogus Man" vs. "A Song For Europe" vs. "Triptych" vs. "She Sells", e.g. side 2 tracks that veer on being filler. fwiw I rate them "Triptych" > "A Song For Europe" >> "The Bogus Man" > "She Sells" >>>>>> "The Bob".

actually I think most of side 2 of the first Roxy album is filler-ish---is that a challop?

Euler, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:47 (fourteen years ago)

Nope -- their most boring side.

a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:48 (fourteen years ago)

As many stunning moments as the first two albums boast, the post-Eno albums are the most exciting.

a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:49 (fourteen years ago)

absolutely agree

Euler, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:50 (fourteen years ago)

Side 2 of For Your Pleasure is better than side 2 of the debut but it pales in comparison to side 2 on the next three albums.

Euler, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:52 (fourteen years ago)

i should play this for the second time tonight because of this revival.

Bee OK, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:58 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

So I wrote a thing.

http://thequietus.com/articles/16514-roxy-music-country-life-anniversary-review

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:19 (eleven years ago)

"Our man from the Orange County, Ned Raggett casts his American eye over another British classic"

Would be hilarious if you walked around dropping Orange County the way Robert Plant drops Black Country. "As a lad in the Orange County, I will always have one foot on the land and a toe in the ocean," said Raggett, wistfully eyeing the surf as he draws on a frothy mug of beer at his favorite beachside dive."

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:22 (eleven years ago)

A more unlikely combination of words describing my past and current situation I could not begin to imagine.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:23 (eleven years ago)

I'm sure someone else will happily be a combination of Doc Sportello and Jonathan Franzen, though.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:24 (eleven years ago)

Astounding to me that the Roxy camp tends to underrate this album out of the original five. Eno (diplomatically) likes "Stranded" best. Ferry likes "For Your Pleasure." "Siren" obviously had the big US hit. The first was important. But "Country Life" they never talk about, despite it being front to back awesome.

I know the title references the staid magazine, but I always thought there was some Shakespearian naughty wordplay going on there, same as Eno invoking "country joys" in "Seven Deadly Finns." "Oh, the French girls with their strings of pearls/Think it's such a burning shame /That the local boys with their country joys/Never make them daisy chains."

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:28 (eleven years ago)

two years pass...

it really is "Out Of The Blue" but this whole album is so awesome.

scott seward, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:19 (eight years ago)

Casanova too low.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:20 (eight years ago)

Scott otm

rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:20 (eight years ago)

YOU THE HERO

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:21 (eight years ago)

People would have to invent a thousand bands and multiple sub-genres just to deal with what was going on in any one song on this album. The whole second side is just.....yeesh. I probably love "A Really Good Time" and "Prairie Rose" as much as OOTB but OOTB's insane deep dub phasing Mahavishnu rock is some sorta landmark in invention.

scott seward, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:29 (eight years ago)

I stand by my comments of 8 (geez, time flies) years ago.

Prairie Rose 4EVA

kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 20:37 (eight years ago)

A Really Good Time is way too low

Week of Wonders (Ross), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 05:01 (eight years ago)

I can't believe 'Casanova' only got one vote... it's one of my favourite tracks on here!

Would have voted 'Out of the Blue', though.

more Allegro-like (Turrican), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 10:02 (eight years ago)

Yes, "Casanova" is great, I remember almost voting for it, fat lot of good that did.

Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 10:15 (eight years ago)


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